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Forgive me if I seem a little nervous this week but this is a debut, of sorts, for “Moving with Mike.” And I’d be fibbing if I denied having a few opening night jitters, so to speak. You see, thanks to today’s launch of the Fort Frances Times’ new Web […]

The sports fishermen are among us again, the determined-looking, all-male bands of strangers seeking overnight accommodations before catching the first planes out to the lakes. And they were piling up in our motels Monday with bad weather threatening to the north. We welcome their presence as a signal that all’s […]

SummerActive 2001, a joint effort of the Emo-La Vallee Heart Health Coalition, Northwestern Health Unit, and Emo rec council, invites you to walk, run, or bike out to the proposed new sports field north of the Emo Cemetery this Friday (May 25) at 7 p.m. “Join in the scavenger hunt, […]

Our Clover Valley Farmers’ Market remains famous for its variety of wares as well as vendors of all kinds. They come from just about every occupation as well as some far-off corners of the world.You might even meet a few farmers in there on a Saturday morning, I discovered. La […]

Dear CBS: At risk of sounding like a conspiracy theorist, or somebody who should just get a life, something about last Thursday’s final episode of “Survivor II: The Australian Outback” just doesn’t sit right with me. No, it wasn’t Colby’s lame-brained decision to vote Keith out instead of Tina. Nor […]

I wish there were a way around this instead of flat out admitting that I don’t have a column for you this week–nothing but excuses! I was never so frustrated in my long and rather convoluted career, but my readers have been faithful and they deserve an explanation: I had […]

“Day of Joy,” a gathering for women featuring special guest speaker Ellen Pukalo, is coming up this Saturday (May 12) from 10 a.m.-1 p.m. at the Christian Reformed Church in Emo. An inspirational speaker from Beausejour, Man., Ellen is a city girl married to a farmer. Ellen is a stay-at-home […]

Jigs will work for walleye in all seasons wherever you fish. If you keep the following basic ideas regarding jigs in mind, you’ll be on the right track to success next time you’re on walleye water. In most situations, you should be able to get by with four jig sizes, […]

Maybe it’s just me but there isn’t the same heated competition (read rivalry) among local slo-pitch teams as there was, say, a dozen years ago. The sad lack of tournaments here on summer weekends nowadays certainly isn’t helping the current malaise on the diamonds–even though there’s a lot more teams […]

This week, it’s appropriate to recall our tragic but beloved Forsberg family before another great district music festival has departed. Bert Forsberg, his wife, Elvi and daughter, Florence, were all centre stage here in so many ways–and music was much of their life. Singer Florence was known as the sweetheart […]

While our high school Muskies’ latest all-Ontario conquest is being celebrated again this spring, there are many old-time hockey fans still harking back to Fort Frances’ national supremacy in senior hockey 49 springs ago. Many will acclaim our puck chasers could take over all Canada again, given the right circumstances, […]